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Post-doctoral Scholars

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Dr Émile Duchesne is standing in front of a large body of water, wearing a red pullover.

Dr. Émile Duchesne

Email: emile.duchesne [at] mcgill.ca (Émile Duchesne)
Program: SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship
Previous Degrees: PhD Anthropology (Université de Montréal); MA Anthropology (Université de Montréal); BA Anthropology (Université de Montréal).
Research Interests: Innu; Algonquian peoples ; cosmology; mythology; oral history; narratives ; indigenous history; collaborative research; comparison; boreal forest.

In sepia, Dr. Marie Lecuyer is wearing a black hat, with short hair underneath.

Dr. Marie Lecuyer

Email: marie.lecuyer2 [at] mail.mcgill.ca (Marie Lecuyer)
Program: Le Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et Culture (FRQSC)– postdoctoral fellow
Previous Degrees: Research Fellow at the School of Creative Media (City University of Hong Kong); PhD Social and Cultural Analysis (Concordia University); MA Anthropology (University of Ottawa); BA International Development (McGill University).
Research Interests: Spectral anthropology; waste, water and ghosts; conservation and contamination; energy transitions and climate regimes; media ecology; oceanic and underground perspectives; multisite and multimedia ethnographies; Southeast Asia; North America.

Dr Martin Miller has short brown hair and is wearing a beige blazer over a white shirt.

Dr. Martin Miller

Email: martin.miller [at] mcgill.ca (Martin Miller)
Program: L4E Postdoctoral Fellow
Previous Degrees: PhD Anthropology (New York University); MPhil Anthropology (New York University); BA Anthropology (Rice University).
Research Interests: Environmental Anthropology; Science and Technology; Religion and Secularism; Moral Ecology; Spirituality; Soils; Multispecies Ethnography; The Netherlands; Europe

Dr Guillermo Ramon Celis has short black hair and a beard, wearing rectangle glasses and a blue shirt.

Dr. Guillermo Ramon Celis

Email: pedro.ramoncelis [at] mcgill.ca (Guillermo Ramon Celis)
Program: Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship
Previous Degrees: BA in archaeology (National School of Anthropology and History), MA in sociocultural Anthropology (Center for Advanced Studies and Research in Social Anthropology), MA in anthropology (Indiana University), PhD in Anthropology (Indiana University).
Research Interests: Mesoamerican archaeology, cultural contact between Europe and the Americas in the 16th century, indigenous colonialism, migration, archaeology of urban landscapes, human and non-human relationships, and cultural heritage studies.

Dr Katyayni Seth has short brown hair, smiling brightly.
Image by Alyssa Lee.

Dr. Katyayni Seth

Email: katyayni.seth [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program:PBEEE Bourses postdoctorales en recherche pour étudiants(es) étrangers(ères)
Previous Degrees:PhD Anthropology (Brown University); MA Anthropology (Brown University); MSc Global Health and Population (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health); BA Economics and International Studies (Colby College).
Research Interests:My work is an attempt to accompany and write about people who are looking after severely ill children. My current book project, Imagine a Room: Paediatrics and Its Publics in Contemporary North India, centres around families and medical residents in a government hospital. In my next project, I will examine the role Sufi shrines play in the management of difficult childhood afflictions. My research is grounded in the city of Meerut, in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP). Rates of morbidity and mortality for children in UP are among the highest in the world.
Recent publications:

  • Anger at the Hospital: Emotional Responses and Affective Citizenship in a North Indian Medical Institution. 2026. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 49(2): 492–511.
  • Artifacts of Care: The Collection of Medical Records by Families in North India. 2022. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 47, 176-194.

Recent Post-doctoral scholars

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Dr. Paul Codjia has a shaved head and a full beard, wearing oval glasses and a grey pullover.

Dr. Paul Codjia

 Email: paul.codjia [at] mail.mcgill.ca ; paul.codjia [at] hotmail.fr
Program: Postdoctoral Fellow (Fyssen Foundation)
Previous Degrees: BSc Physics (Université de Bordeaux), MA Philosophy of Science (Université Bordeaux Montaigne), MA Ethnology and Social Anthropology (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales-EHESS), PhD Ethnology and Social Anthropology (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales-EHESS)
Research Interests: Affect and emotions, Ritual, Speech act and pragmatics, Indigenous politics, Self-determination movements, Amazonian territorialities, human/nonhuman interactions, Wampis (Aent Chicham), Peru.

In black and white, Janique Johnson-Lafleur has long wavy hair and is wearing a black sweater.

Janique Johnson-Lafleur

Email: janique.johnson-lafleur [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Program: Postdoctoral Fellow, Research and Action on Social Polarizations Team - RAPS (Public Safety Canada Funding)
Previous Degrees: Anthropology, Université Laval (BA); Anthropology, Université de Montréal (MSc); Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University (PhD).
Research Interests: Critical Medical Anthropology; Intercultural Training; Cultural Safety and Youth Mental Health Care; Images, Narratives and Discourse; Social Polarisations and Violent Extremism; Gender Studies; Arts; Participatory Research; Clinical Ethnography; Nunavik; Québec

Jasmine C. Pisapia has long brown hair and is wearing a black coat.

Jasmine C. Pisapia

 Program: SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow
Previous Degrees: BA Literature and Humanities (Université de Montréal), MA Comparative Literature (Université de Montréal), PhD Sociocultural Anthropology (Columbia University)
Research Interests: aesthetics; toxicity and environmental crisis; deindustrialization; Italy; literature, poetics, media and performance; experimental ethnographic writing; memory and the archive; historical anthropology; feminist psychoanalysis; cinema, theater and documentary arts.

Dr Victor Sam has short brown hair and is wearing a denim jacket.

Dr. Sam Victor

Dr Victor is now a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Université du Québec à Montréal. You can reach him at: victor.samuel [at] courrier.uqam.ca

Program: FRQ-SC Postdoctoral Fellow
Previous Degrees: BA French Studies (Concordia University), MSc Anthropology (Université de Montréal), PhD Social Anthropology (University of Cambridge)
Research Interests: Value conflict; Strategies of influence and persuasion; Epistemic countercultures; Religious pluralism; Religion and rationality; Social epistemology; Evangelicalism in the United States and Canada; Liberalisms; Laïcité; Christianity and capitalism.
Recent publications:
“Checking the Fruit: Skepticism as Epistemic Politics in American Evangelicalism”
2025. Journal of the American Academy of Religion

“Anthropologie et religion”
2025. Anthropen

“Religious Suasion”, Special Issue
2024 (with Danny Cardoza). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

 

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